My mentor, Elisabeth Elliot, one wrote, "Is there any Christian who does not long for some special experience, vision,
or feeling of the presence of God? This morning it seemed to me that unless I
could claim such I was merely going through motions of prayer, meditation,
reading; that the book I am writing on discipline will prove to be nothing but
vanity and a striving after wind. The Lord brought yesterday's word to mind
again with this emphasis: it is not any experience, no matter how exciting, not
any vision, however vivid and dazzling, not any feeling, be it ever so deep that
fits me for service. It is the power of the blood of Christ. I am "made holy by
the single unique offering of the body of Jesus Christ" (Heb 10:10), and by his
blood "fit for the service of the living God." My spiritual numbness cannot
cancel that--the blood will never lose its power."
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